HEADLINES IN THIS BULLETIN
FIJI COUP
House
Passes Unanimous Motion Against Speight
Fiji Coup
Full Coverage
Scoop Analysis: There is no Fijian
Nation
Behind The News: Fijilive.com
TOP
SCOOPS
Govt U-Turn On Matrimonial Property
Clark Criticises Police Action On Chinese
Protests
Scoop Opinion: Perigo On Coutts &
Co.
Scoop Is In The House - Questions Of The
Day
DOC Downgrade On West Coast
Income
Rents For State Houses Restored
Petrol Prices: BP
Moves
MORE SCOOPS
Telecom & Vodafone Get
Friendly
Fletchers & ACT On The New Employment
Bill
ECA Stalling Growth
The Cigar
Nazis?
Forest Accord Concerns Aired
Dioxin Standards Needed
Get It Right Hauraki
Gulf Forum
Scoop World: Haitian Elections
Transmission Gully Under Spotlight
Scoop
Business: Consumers On The Web
Scoop Business:
Clear New Direction In Multimedia
Beggs
Petition
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“You
Journalists Must Duck” – Fiji Coup
House Passes Unanimous Motion
Against Speight - The New Zealand Parliament has
passed a unanimous motion condemming the coup attempt by
Fijian businessman George Speight. The motion puts pressure
on the Fijian council of chiefs not to yeild to any of the
hostage takers demands and restore the Choudhry Government.
It will be delivered to the council of chiefs at their
meeting today. See.. PM Statement On The Fijian Hostage
Situation [1] in the Parliament wire. Also
see... PM Condemns Hostage Takers As Thugs [2]
in the Headlines wire. - Scoop is carrying ongoing
coverage of the Fiji Coup from Journalism students at the
University of the South Pacific in Suva. - Speight Sends
Envoys To Meeting - Rebel leader George Speight will not
attend Fiji's traditional Great Council of Chiefs special
meeting today but is expected to send two representatives.
See... Rebel Leader To Send Envoys To Chiefs
Meeting [1] . - Gunman Loses Cool - One of
rebel leader George Speight's gunmen was thrown out of
Parliament complex last night after he lost his cool,
shouting he has “a call and duty to perform”. See... Raging Gunman Thrown Out Of Parliament
Complex [2] . - Speight Slams Media Ban - The
leader of the armed group holding the Prime Minister,
Mahendra Chaudhry, and his ministers hostage at the
parliamentary complex, today strongly objected to a
directive by the President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara to place
a restriction on the news media. See... Fiji Coup: Insurrection leader slams media
ban [3] . . “There are
Fijian provinces, and traditional Fijian confederacies, but
the two military coups of 1987 and the current hostage
crisis illustrate with disturbing insistence the erosion of
indigenous Fijian social order and the fragmentation of
indigenous Fijian leadership.” See... An analysis of the political crisis in
Fiji [1] by Teresia Teaiwa, Lecturer in Pacific
Studies, Victoria University of Wellington in the
Headlines wire. - Staffed by just eight people
led by editor Yashwant Gaundler - kept the world informed of
undischarged bankrupt and Australian resident George
Speight's coup of Mahendra Chaudhry's Fiji government on
Friday. See... Media Site's Exclusive: Fiji Coup Live
[1] in the Headlines wire. Govt U-Turn On Matrimonial
Property - Labour Minister Margaret Wilson is
proposing to call for the Matrimonial Property Bill and
proposed amendments to be referred to the Justice and
Electoral Select Committee. See... Matrimonial Property Bill to be referred
[1] in the Parliament wire. The Government has
bowed to pressure from the other parties who have criticised
the Bill. For their comments see below. -
The Prime Minister Helen Clark said she was “disturbed” at
police efforts to move protesters during Chinese Premier
Jiang Xiamin’s visit to Christchurch last year. See... PM Disturbed At Police Treatment Of
Protestors [1] in the Headlines wire. Helen
Clark is once again wading into police operational matters
with her comments on the handling of anti-Chinese
protestors, particularly in regard to the Christchurch State
dinner says National. See... Helen Clark pre-judging the police issue
[2] in the Parliament wire. - In his weekly
radio programme the Politically Incorrect Show on Radio
Pacific Libertarianz leader and commentator Lindsay Perigo
defends the behaviour of Brad Buterworth and Russell Coutts
– and gives them an award. See... Perigo - To Coutts & Buterworth, the Freerad
Award [1] in the Politics wire. – Today's questions concerned
the subjects of: Brain Drain - Fiji Crisis - Current Account
Deficit - NZers Caught In Fiji Crisis - Canterbury Business
Confidence - Copyright In Schools - Brain Drain - ERB x 2 -
Income Related Rents – Matrimonial Property. See... SCP HOUSE: Questions Of The Day - May
23rd [1] in the Headlines wire. - As West Coasters debate
this week whether to accept Government's $120 million offer,
the Department of Conservation says because of lack of
public use, it is closing West Coast walkways, downgrading
tracks and closing back country huts. Scoop's West Coast
Correspondent John Howard reports. See... D.O.C. Closes West Coast Tracks And Huts
[1] in the Headlines wire. - “From 1
December low-income Housing New Zealand tenants will pay no
more than 25 % of their income in rent” the Minister of
Housing Mark Gosche confirmed today. See... Income Related Rents Restored [1] . For
every person who will benefit from the Government's income
related rents policy five other low-income people will miss
out, says National's Housing spokesman Tony Ryall. See... What about the other low-income families Mr
Gosche [2] . Also see ACT’s view Shock For State Tenants In Government’s Fine
Print [3] all in the Parliament wire. - BP Oil New Zealand Ltd is
lifting the price of petrol by four cents a litre at its
company-owned service stations from 2pm today. See... BP Lifts Petrol Prices Four Cents [1] .
Caltex and Shell yesterday raised retail petrol prices by
four cents a litre effective immediately. See... Shell Increases Fuel Prices [2] and Caltex raises petrol prices [3] in the
Business wire. With the continuing rise in petrol
prices currently being experienced by the New Zealand
consumer, petrol retailers are facing the brunt of the
public's frustration at increasing prices. See... Petrol Price Rises [4] in the
Politics wire. Also see Deputy Prime Minister Jim
Anderton's remarks... Pump prices higher now than when oil prices
peaked [5] in the Parliament wire.
- Richard Dammery, General Manager of Telecom’s Access &
Transport group, said that changes to the agreement’s
conditions and prices reflected a maturing of commercial
relationships in the telecommunications sector of New
Zealand. See... Telecom & Vodafone Sign New Interconnect
Agreement [1] in the Business wire. - The
Employment Relations Bill must create a sustainable
employment relations framework says New Zealand’s largest
industrial employer, Fletcher Challenge. See... Bill must create sustainable employment
relations [1] in the Politics wire. Meanwhile:
“The Coalition is in disarray over the Employment Relations
Bill,” said ACT leader Richard Prebble today. See... Coalition Disarray Over Employment Relations
Bill [2] in the Parliament wire. - “By encouraging employers to
reduce real wages and to substitute cheap flexible labour
for improvements in training and productivity, the
Employment Contracts Act has played a key role in driving
down New Zealand’s long term economic performance. So says
the President of the Trade Union Federation. See... Employment Contracts Act has hastened
decline [1] in the Politics wire. - Libertarianz Deputy Leader
Richard McGrath says New Zealander who values free speech
should be alarmed at the intimidation of a private company
who has been told by the Ministry of Health to block New
Zealand access to its website. See... Free Speech? Gone In a Puff of Smoke!
[1] in the Politics wire. - At the recent New
Zealand Farm Forestry Annual Conference in Balclutha,
members voted to remain within the New Zealand Forest Accord
and to discuss their concerns with other parties to the
Accord. See... Farm Foresters Defer Forest Accord
Decision [1] in the Politics wire. - New Zealand urgently needs
to develop national environmental standards on dioxin
emissions, in light of a report soon to be released by the
United States Government on the carcinogenic effects of
dioxin, Green MP Sue Kedgley said today. See... National Dioxin Standards Required
Immediately [1] in the Parliament
wire. - Conservation and
Associate Maori Affairs Minister Hon Sandra Lee has urged
the inaugural meeting of the Hauraki Gulf Forum in Auckland
today to come to a quick consensus on priorities. See... New Forum urged to reach quick consensus
[1] in the Parliament wire. - With everything
working against a smooth vote, an amazingly high percentage
of Haitians managed to cast their ballot, a triumph for
self-representation. See... Haiti's Slide to the Abyss Halted before
Plunge? [1] in the International wire. - The Wellington
City Council is right to question the wisdom of proceeding
with Transmission Gully, Wellington Green MP Sue Kedgley
said today. See... Wegtn Council wise to question roading
project [1] in the Parliament wire. - NFO CM
Research today launched some of New Zealand’s first
customised interactive research tools designed to help
companies understand consumer behaviour on the world wide
web. See... Info CM Research Launches Interactive
Tools [1] in the Business wire. -
New Zealanders should expect high-bandwidth services,
delivering music and television to the home and a new
generation of sophisticated applications to businesses,
within five years. See... Vision key to CLEAR proposal to telecomms
Inquiry [1] in the Business wire. - The parents of Malcolm Beggs, who
was murdered in 1999 by his flatmate, mental health patient
Lachlan Jones, will present a petition to Parliament on
Tuesday 23 May and meet with Prime Minister Helen Clark.
See... Parents Of Malcolm Beggs To Present
Petition [1] in the Parliament wire.
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Fiji Coup Full Coverage
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0005/S00097.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0005/S00098.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0005/S00091.htm
Scoop Analysis: There is no Fijian Nation
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0005/S00099.htm
Behind
The News: Fijilive.com
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0005/S00095.htmTOP
SCOOPS
FULL
COVERAGE
- ACT- Attorney General Still Denying Proper
Scrutiny [2] .
- NATIONAL- Govt Ties The Knot For Couples Without
Asking [3]
- ACT - Select Committee Scrutiny A Must [4]
- UNITED NZ - Property Relations Legislation Needs More
Thinking [5] .
- GREENS- Greens Request Second Look At Property
Bill [6] .
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[2]
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[4]
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[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00485.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00490.htm
Clark Criticises Police Action On Chinese Protests
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0005/S00096.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00483.htm
Scoop Opinion: Perigo On Coutts & Co.
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0005/S00131.htm
Scoop Is In The House
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0005/S00098.htm
DOC Downgrade On West Coast
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0005/S00094.htm
Income Rents For State Houses Restored
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00473.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00470.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00472.htm
Petrol Prices: BP Moves
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[4]
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[5]
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SCOOPS
Telecom & Vodafone Get Friendly
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0005/S00135.htm
Fletchers & ACT On The New Employment Bill
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0005/S00133.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00492.htm
ECA Stalling Growth
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0005/S00132.htm
The Cigar Nazis?
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0005/S00130.htm
Forest Accord Concerns Aired
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0005/S00129.htm
Dioxin Standards Needed
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00479.htm
Get It Right Hauraki Gulf Forum
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00487.htm
Scoop World: Haitian Elections
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0005/S00092.htm
Transmission Gully Under Spotlight
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00478.htm
Scoop Business: Consumers On The Web
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0005/S00134.htm
Scoop Business: Clear New Direction In Multimedia
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0005/S00131.htm
Beggs Petition
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0005/S00475.htm